Kim Gordon

In a performance captured by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra on YouTube, Kim Gordon is seen using the Electro-Harmonix Oceans 11 reverb pedal. I also witnessed her using this pedal during a recent live show.

Here you can see Kim's Hot Tubes. Source.

"I have a couple loop pedals. It’s a very lo-fi loop, so it only holds one loop—you can’t save it, really. Or you can save it, but you can only have that one loop on it then. It sounds more like it has a cassette sound to it," mentions Kim Gordon, in this interview, in which this photo of her pedalboard, with her ZVex LO-FI Loop pedal can be seen.

Chris Lawrence mentions that Kim used an MXR M-103 Blue box according to this post on Sonic Youth's official "Gearography".

In this image we can see Kim's Pro Co TurboRAT Pedal. Source.

Left side of Kim's pedalboard shows a Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man. Source.

Love my new octave fuzz scrambler

used for her vocal mic, going into a fender deluxe

In this picture from Sonic Youth's website we can see this picture of Kim's pedalboard.

Bottom right of Kim's pedalboard you can see an Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer Effects Pedal. Source.

In this live image of Sonic Youth, you can see Kim using an Mu-Tron Wah.

An Boss PH-2 Super Phaser Guitar Effects Pedal can be seen in this image from Sonic Youth's site.

used it live here - inbetween a ehx bass microsynth and keeley red-dirt od

In this picture from Sonic Youth's website we can see that this Whirlwind Selector A/B Box was used by Kim, we can even see that her name is written on it.

In this image you can see Kim's Boss DD-3 Digital Delay Pedal. Source.

This image, taken on July 14th, 2006 @ the Fillmore in San Francisco, CA shows that Kim used an Ibanez AD9 Analog Delay. Source.

This appears to be a vintage version of Sitori Sonics' Brownies and Cream Effects Pedal. Source.

i was there and saw her use it live. in between a medical pedal co. fake news and a deluxe vintage memory man.

During a live performance with Body/Head at IMMA, Dublin, Kim Gordon used the Electro-Harmonix Bass Micro Synth XO in her pedal chain, positioned between an EarthQuaker Devices Hummingbird and a Medical Pedal Co. Fake News. This setup is visible in the YouTube video by Alex Oliveira.

Used from 1998 to 1999 on songs like "Anagrama" and "Wildflower", as specified on Sonic Youth's official website's equipment page for Gordon.

1998

• Electro-Harmonix Hot Tubes
• Proco Rat
• tc electronics Phase Shifter
• MXR Blue Box
• Dunlop Jimi Hendrix Octave Fuzz *Arion Stage Tuner
• D.I. box
• Dyna Soar homemade distortion (see "other")

Thanks to the now defunct original SY supersite evol.org, I can provide you with some photographs of SY's effects gear from the '98 "A Thousand Leaves" tour, specifically the 5/21/98 Portland, OR gig. Many thanks to Michael McCullough for taking these.

• Electro-Harmonix Hot Tubes
• Blue Box, tc electronics Phaser, Dyna Soar, Hendrix Octave Fuzz, Turbo Rat
• Dyna Soar & Hendrix Octave Fuzz
• Turbo Rat
• Hot Tubes, DI Box, Arion Stage Tuner
• Blue Box, tc electronics Phaser

1999

• Electro-Harmonix Hot Tubes
• MXR Blue Box
• MXR Phase 90
• Dunlop Jimi Hendrix Octave Fuzz
• ProCo Turbo Rat
• Electro Harmonix Micro Synth (re-issue)
• Dyna Soar Distortion Pedal (see "other")

(...) Dyna Soar distortion pedal -- this small homemade fuzzbox was reportedly loud enough to blow up an amplifier, so Kim began using it as a slide on songs like "Anagrama" and "Wildflower".

Here you can see Kim's Moog MF-103 Moogerfooger 12 Stage Phaser. Source.

You can see from this image that Kim uses an Ernie Ball Volume pedal. Source.

In a live performance at IMMA, Dublin, Kim Gordon used the Radial Twin-City Active ABY Amp Switch, as seen in a video by Alex Oliveira on YouTube.

also used here, along with the minifooger mf-trem

Sonic Youth lists on their official site that Kim uses a TU-2 tuner.

used here live, along with the minifooger MF-delay

In this Instagram post, Kim shows an unboxing of an Echo Master pedal with the caption of "Psyched to try this !"